Fayhem
Definitely not an escaped SCP
- Location
- At large
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As some other people have touched on, I think it's the normative disconnect that makes people say that more than the Empire seeming to not "work" on the level the Empire believes is valuable. I believe the Empire was highly functional at serving and propagating its own values for a very long time, but those values (or at least the way they play out in practice) appear to be mainly a mix of Latest Stage Capitalism and existential horror. Which provokes instinctive revulsion in me and seemingly a lot of other questers here.Also, talking about trying to "explain the dysfunctionality of the empire" bugs me a lot because the Empire was intended to be weird and alien and uncomfortable but not to project dysfunctionality, and when people say things like this it makes me wonder what part of the worldbuilding I fucked up.
Put another way, the Empire feels very instrumentally functional, but very dysfunctional on the axiomatic level. And given the context of the current quest, I do use the term "axiomatic" advisedly.😉